The Associated Press -
Published: 8:13 pm
Officials in Joplin, Mo., have brought together a team of public safety employees they are sending to tornado-stricken Moore.
The Associated Press -
Updated: 7:40 pm
Officials say a tornado hit a small hospital in suburban Oklahoma City, but all the 30 patients inside survived.
The Associated Press -
Updated: 6:20 pm
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says "hearts are broken" for parents wondering about the fate of their children after a tornado devastated suburban Oklahoma City and officials say the search and rescue effort will continue throughout the night.
The Associated Press -
Updated: 8:00 pm
Tornado warnings have been issued across much of the Midwest, stretching from Oklahoma to Illinois, following a second deadly twister in as many days in the Oklahoma City area.
The Associated Press -
Published: 5:30 pm
The fourth week of protests led by the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP has ended in the arrests of more than 50 people at the state legislature.
The Associated Press -
Updated: 7:00 pm
Officials at two hospitals say they've been treating more than 140 patients, including about 70 children, since a massive tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City.
The Associated Press -
Updated: 5:50 pm
A judge approved a request Monday by Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense attorneys to receive records compiled on him in federal prison.
BEN NUCKOLS -
Published: 3:50 pm
Ten young scholars have made it to the finals of the National Geographic Bee, where they'll compete for a $25,000 college scholarship.
By BRUCE SCHREINER -
Updated: 3:55 pm
A Kentucky teenager known as a "jokester" was strangled by a dog lead he put around his neck while playing with friends at the start of summer vacation, just hours after finishing his freshman year in high school.
By WILSON RING -
Updated: 4:05 pm
After years of debate, Vermont became the fourth state in the country Monday to allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medicine to terminally ill patients seeking to end their lives.
The Associated Press -
Updated: 3:40 pm
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is assuring Oklahoma's governor that the Obama administration will provide all possible help to the state after a massive tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs.
The Associated Press -
Published: 3:19 pm
The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., had wind speeds up to 200 mph.
The Associated Press -
Published: 3:00 pm
Federal wildlife officials are postponing a much-anticipated decision on whether to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states.
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN -
Updated: 5:45 pm
A federal judge has dismissed a charge that is the backbone of the case against a former BP executive accused of concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil spewing in 2010 from the company's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.
By BROCK VERGAKIS -
Updated: 7:48 pm
The two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast were part of the agency's elite hostage rescue team, a group known most recently for rescuing an Alabama boy from an underground bunker.
The Associated Press -
Published: 2:50 pm
A North Carolina woman is charged with trying to poison five family members after one of them refused to share some cheese with her.
By HOLBROOK MOHR -
Updated: 4:10 pm
An explosives recycling company that authorities said improperly stored millions of pounds of a military propellant, causing the evacuation of a Louisiana town last year, was stripped of its state explosives licenses on Monday.